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A review by anastasiacarrow
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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4.5
oscar wilde was . . . a genius?
this book is perhaps the most quotable in the world, so here are some of my favorites:
"the real drawback of marriage is that it makes one unselfish."
"beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich."
"being adored is a nuisance."
"there is a luxury in self-reproach. when we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. it is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
"it often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."
"there seemed to him something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance." (POOR BASIL)
"and what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? my dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
"what nonsense people talk about happy marriages!"
"when they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy."
"shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
"as for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. destiny does not send us heralds. she is too wise or too cruel for that."
"life has been your art. you have set yourself to music. your days are your sonnets."
"the books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
oscar wilde was . . . a genius?
this book is perhaps the most quotable in the world, so here are some of my favorites:
"the real drawback of marriage is that it makes one unselfish."
"beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich."
"being adored is a nuisance."
"there is a luxury in self-reproach. when we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. it is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
"it often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."
"there seemed to him something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance." (POOR BASIL)
"and what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? my dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
"what nonsense people talk about happy marriages!"
"when they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy."
"shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
"as for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. destiny does not send us heralds. she is too wise or too cruel for that."
"life has been your art. you have set yourself to music. your days are your sonnets."
"the books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."